Shoe polisher



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Patented Apr. 12, 1932 UNITED STATES WILLIAM V. VAN ETTEN, F BELLINGHAM,WASHINGTON SHOE IOLISHER Application filed October 4, 1930. Serial No.486,398.

My invention relates to improvements in shoe polishers and has for anobject to provide a lighter and more convenient polisher than the woodenback device commonly used and one having the advantages thereof andcosting less to make.

Another object of my improvement is to provide a shoe polislier adaptedto closely conform to the shape of the shoe over which it is drawn.

Other objects and advantages will appear as the description proceeds.

I attain these and other advantages and objects of my improvement withthe device illustrated in the accompanying sheet of drawings, forming apart of this specification, in which Figure l is a plan view of my shoepolisher, Fig. 2 is a side elevation of Fig. 1 and Fig. 3 is an endelevation'of the wire handle and shank of my device.

Similar characters refer to similar parts throughout. Certain parts arebroken away to show other parts hidden thereby.

With more particular reference to the designated parts: A wire is shapedto form handle 4, 4 consisting of two parallel wires twisted together atthe ends of the handle at 5, 5 and again spread apart to form the shanks6, 6 the ends of which are bent toward each other at right angles toform nibs 7 7 on eac-h shank. Steel strap 8 has an eye 9 formed on eachend with which nihs 7 are engaged to fasten the strap to the handle.

A strip of lambs skin with the wool thereon is folded over theright-hand end of the strap at 10 and joined over the left-hand end ofthe strap at a1() where the ends of the skin are stripped of wool andfastened together at 14 to provide a iiap. As illus- 4G trated, thelower fold of the lambskin which bears on strap 8 is shown at 11 and thewool thereon at 12, while the upper fold thereof is shown at all and thewool thereon at w12, and the wool at the ends is shown at 13, 13. Bypreference the lambskin strip is snugly fastened over the strap 8 tomake a close-fitting and neat appearance.

To use my device it is grasped by handle 4 and the wool surface 12 iscaused to bear 5 on the shoe to be polished and drawn forth and backthereover. in the usual way. It will be found that strap 8 will yieldunder pressure and to a degree conform to the shape of the shoe whichconsiderably facilitates the polishing process. Also ends 13 may be usedto enter narrow recesses which may be easily polished thereby.

When desired the relative location of wool surfaces 12 and L12 may beinterchanged by pulling on flap 14 to pull it across to the other end ofthe polisher to 14 when surface cl2 will be exposed to use on the bot-`tom of the polisher.

This interchanging of polishing surfaces 12 and a12maybe done easily andis useful to replace a worn surface; or surface 12, say, may be reservedfor polishing shoes treated with black'polish and surface @12 may bereserved for shoes which have been treated with a tan polish. In thisway onel of my shoe polishers renders the service hitherto requiring twothereof.

Having thus disclosed my invention, what I claim as new therein anddesire to secure by Letters Patent is.,-V f

A shoe polisher including a handle, a bi-r furcated shank on each end ofthe handle, a metal strap with its ends fastened to the handle Shanksbetween the bifurcations thereof, and a fold of lambskin with the woolthereof outermost enveloping said strap having the ends thereof denudedo-f said wool and fastened {iatwise together for a finger-hold flap.

WILLIAM V. VAN ETTEN.

